Monday, May 16, 2011

Go Back in Time

Do your children or students love learning about people from the past? If you have a little history buff at home like I do, then they will absolutely love this project! Recently, Sunshine was assigned a Living History Museum Project. She had to become Harriet Tubman. Her requirements included writing a personal narrative, sharing real or created artifacts, and creating a poster that shows a time-line of Harriet's life, maps and pictures. My daughter worked so hard researching Tubman's life. There were plenty of articles online, but what she enjoyed the most was reading books about her life. She read Who was Harriet Tubman? by Yona Zeldis McDonough and Time for Kids: Harriet Tubman: A Woman of Courage.Because it is a living museum, she had to dress as Harriet in a historical costume. She could wear a costume or make her own. We did both. Luckily, I was asked to review a costume for Costume Discounters. What perfect timing! I searched on their site to pick out a costume that I could review that Sunshine could use for her project. There was a large variety, but I wasn't able to find exactly what we needed. So what do you do in the Creative and Curious Kids household? You improvise. We chose a Colonial Girl Costume and turned it into a Harriet Tubman costume. It will get a lot of use, because now she wants to be a colonial girl for Halloween. The costume is adorable and affordable. The quality is good for the price that you are paying. The colonial costume retails for under $17.00 and is 100% polyester. Below is a photo of the original costume from Costume Discounters.

Sunshine modeling the costume

And next, you'll see how we switched things up a bit to turn her into Harriet Tubman.

Harriet Tubman with her Gospel Hymns

Sunshine in character with project

Now that big sis has a costume, of course Peanut wants one as well! I'm looking at this one below for her for this fall. I think she'd make an adorable Betsy Ross.

Here's just a little bit more info. from their site:Cheap Halloween costumes is the name of the game here at Costume Discounters. Our Incredible Lowest Price Guarantee ensures you'll get exceptional value when you buy your costume for Halloween or other occassion. Costume Discounters brings you the latest and best costumes at the lowest prices...all year round.

Well, this was wonderful experience for her. I hope that you enjoyed reading about her project and my review.

Enjoy your day,

Jen

Disclosure: I was provided with a costume at no cost by Costume Discounters in order to give my own personal opinions on it. The opinions I have given are mine and may differ from others but were not influenced by the company or the free product provided.

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